As Conn. story unfolds, media struggle with facts NEW YORK (AP) — The scope and senselessness of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting challenged journalists’ ability to do much more than lend, or impose, their presence on the scene. Pressed with the awful urgency of the story, television, along with other media, fell prey to reporting “facts” […]
JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN,Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A man opened fire Friday inside the Connecticut elementary school where his mother worked as a teacher, killing 26 people, including 20 children, as youngsters cowered in their classrooms and trembled helplessly to the sound of gunfire reverberating through the building. The killer, armed with two handguns, committed […]
By Sara Brumfield Messenger staff journalist,writer 12–12–12. It’s a date to remember. Or at least Stephanie Heck of The Plains is hoping so. Wednesday will mark the last repetitive or “alliteration date” for 89 years. And it will also be the day that Heck and her fiancé James Walker will tie the knot. Heck, 31, and Walker, 33, […]
EMMETT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A southwestern Michigan casino is betting that 12–12–12 is going to be a lucky day for opening its new hotel. A ribbon-cutting is planned for 12:12 p.m. Wednesday for the eight-story, 242-room hotel at FireKeepers Casino near Battle Creek. The Nottawaseppi (NOT’-uh-wuh-seh-pee) Huron Band of Potawatomi (pot-uh-WAH’-tuh-mee) Indians owns the casino in […]
BRIDGET MURPHY,Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — With a once-a-century date coming, some people are betting on good luck on 12–12–12. Numerologist and author Vikki MacKinnon says the date represents two energies merging, making it a beautiful day for weddings. She says that’s good news for the couples who are planning to say their “I do’s” […]
Vatican: World not ending, despite Maya prediction VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s top astronomer has some assurances to offer: The world won’t be ending in 10 days, despite predictions to the contrary. The Rev. Jose Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, wrote in Wednesday’s Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano that “it’s not even worth discussing” doomsday […]
KRISTEN WYATT,Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Recreational marijuana use became legal in Washington state Thursday, but Colorado could have to wait almost a month before the state constitution allows people to legally smoke pot in private. Colorado’s elections chief planned Thursday to certify last month’s vote to allow recreational marijuana use. The certification sets up […]
AUDREY McAVOY,Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater. And so he set out to restore names to the dead. Emory, a survivor of the attack, doggedly scoured decades-old documents to piece together […]